in the background screams that the man in question just "fell out of his booster box." Jefferson looks menacingly at the camera just before the credits roll. Occasionally, people claim to have seen him on The Love Boat and Happy Days (a reference to McGinley having starred in both shows towards the end of their original broadcast runs), but Jefferson always denies this. Ted McGinley had appeared previously as Peg's husband, Mr. Norman Jablonski, in the second part of "It's a Bundyful Life" where Al's guardian angel (Sam Kinison) shows Al what his family would have become if he was never born. The episode lightly parodies Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Buck Buck (played by Michael, trained by Steven Ritt) was the first family dog, a Briard (ironically a French breed of dog for the French-hating Al). Voice-over by writer/producer Kevin Curran, who appeared briefly onscreen during the end sequence of the sixth-season episode "Psychic Avengers" where Buck is turned into a human. In some episodes, Buck is voiced by Cheech Marin. From season eight on, Buck's voice was provided by staff member Kim Weiskopf. He is often "heard" by the audience through voice-overs that tell what is on his mind. Like the human Bundys, he is just as lazy, insulting and sarcastic to the rest of the family, making snide remarks about Kelly's intelligence and Bud's inability to find a date. In spite of this, Peg dotes on him, sometimes even cooking for him. Though extremely lazy, Buck has a huge, insatiable sexual appetite, having at one point impregnated all the female dogs in the neighborhood. Buck died at one point in the series to allow Michael, the dog that portrayed him, to retire. Buck went to animal heaven, and was reincarnated as Lucky, an American Cocker Spaniel (having met God in heaven, who turned out to be a cat). In later seasons, Buck/Lucky would occasionally serve as the narrator in the second half of a two-part episode, recapping the events of the first part. Buck's last episode, 10.03, "Requiem for a Dead Briard" - originally broadcast on October 1, 1995 - ends with the following message on the screen: "Dedicated to Buck the Dog who with this episode begins a well earned retirement and hopefully a nice gig at stud. We'll miss you, Buddy, lift a leg. - The Producers." Retired at the age of twelve-and-a-half, Michael died